Book: Cossack in Paradise

To correct the situation, Ivan interfered with his education. Someone very rightly said that all the ills of the current philologists derive from their erudition and, accordingly, conviction of the inviolability of the deducted knowledge. The elves MUST be just such a noble, beautiful, romantic, period! And the reality is sometimes quite unceremoniously takes us muzzle on the asphalt with only one request - take it for what it is and not that which is imposed on us by a literary education...
Apparently all the fault of this great and mighty Russian language! The language is living, growing and evolving exclusively according to its own laws, constantly bewilders the entire linguistic-philological brethren. The language that literally every word has two, maybe three, often completely opposite meanings. How to reach him how to come up with a clear concept and framework? Which corresponds to the inviolable "rules of the Russian language" and what is not? He's changing dramatically every century...
"Oh, well who so writes?! It is a mere delusion, a mockery of the highest traditions of our literature, over the pillars of the classics, over the canons of the genre, over the system of cultural education of the people!" - in full voice cry people in the know. But people are not hearing them, he reads... and laughs. Laughs! Because he sees in the book, native, warm, intimate and clear - their language, their speech, their characters...
Ivan Kochuev tried only slightly to shift the angle of view - and everything fell into place. So, let's continue...